Starship is going to be huge when it's finally operational. It seems like it should be worth more than $8/shr if the potential is accounted properly.

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Arnt 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why is it going to be huge? Who are the customers and what do they want?

I don't follow this closely, just look at the pretty pictures. If there's demand for lifting much bigger/heavier things to orbit than presently possible, I would probably not know, for lack of pretty pictures. So please tell.

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praseodym 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Don’t forget that SpaceX has 3.884 billion outstanding shares!

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nicman23 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

just like full self driving tm

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Earw0rm 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm thinking of flying over on the Spruce Goose to watch the first operational launch.

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SideburnsOfDoom 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Starship is going to be huge when it's finally operational.

Any day now. Yep, real soon, honest!

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jve 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Don't repeat mistakes of people that were making fun of SpaceX landing rockets before they started to land.

Starship has so much innovation in there, the raptors itself etc.

It launches, it flies, it re-enters and it lands. The engines work. The heat protection work. Even when they push it to the limits by intentionally experimenting with different heat protection, omitting tiles etc. Even when they are in R&D stage.

I believe they can make it work with little refurbishment between flights. Even if all didn't work like they planned, they still have a very, very good vehicle.

I mean something must go off the rails very very badly for the Starship NOT to enter the service.

	▲	yborg 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It has to make money. The Space Shuttle was a technical marvel as well and was massively subsidized by the US taxpayer.
	▲	__d 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Falcon9 has basically no market: the only thing that keeps it flying is Starlink. The whole AI/orbital datacentres/launch thing is a giant grift.